Honor Harrington Deals With Male Chauvinism could be the title of this book, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's not space battles. I'm not the first to point out that this series is best when describing space battles. The more it strays from that, the less interesting it tends to get. The first book was mostly space battles, the rest of the series increasingly deals with politics, which simply aren't as interesting from this author.